The Death Head Luger

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by DonVoigt

I subscribe to the Weimar Freikorps theory; the one elucidated by Ron - and perhaps others.

Well written, Ron.

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Originally Posted by Ron Wood

It is not a great leap of logic to suggest that the Death Head symbol of the MWH sleeve badge was extended to the chamber marking of Lugers carried by Heuschkel’s troops of the flammenwerfer platoon with the addition of surmounting the “lazy S” to represent the pattern of a flamethrower while advancing on enemy positions’.

The 'lazy s' being representative of the flamethrower in use had never occurred to me, even while I was watching US Marines mopping up Japanese positions in WW II on the History Channel and thinking that they had to 'sweep' the flow of flame to see if they were hitting what they aimed at.

I would like to request that this thread be made a 'sticky'.